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For a democracy to give good results, voters need to work from good information. Even in the absence of intentional manipulation, Facebook is hyper-efficient a
by panarky 9y ago
For a democracy to give good results, voters need to work from good information.
Even in the absence of intentional manipulation, Facebook is hyper-efficient at spreading bad information.
Now America's adversaries have weaponized this, and are actively pushing sophisticated and targeted disinformation through Facebook.
Zuckerberg's malign naïveté allowed this to get bigger, faster than he could manage. It's a monster that he doesn't know how to control.
Until Americans understand how thoroughly they've been fucked, and until Facebook reckons with their outsized role in this, it's really important to keep beating this drum.
Zuckerberg himself is only gradually coming to terms with it.
Here's his "preposterous defence" eviscerated -> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/opinion/mark-zuckerberg-facebook.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/opinion/mark-zuckerberg-f...
- wilde 9y agoPeople don’t vote based on facts. They vote based on identity and feelings. Democracy for Realists has an explanation at length.